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Monthly Archives: December 2015
2015: A Year in Books
Last year I posted a bright year-end reading blog, talking about how I fail at all New Year’s resolutions, except for reading. “It was a cool year,” I wrote, “with rich reading from beginning to end.” I had set a 2014 … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
Tagged academic, blog, books, C.S. Lewis, fantasy, Fictional Universes, literature, PhD, Ransom Trilogy, Reading, Science Fiction, theology, writing
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My 2015 Annual Report
Once again the good folks at WordPress.com have created an annual report. Many thanks to the great readers, commentators, guest bloggers, and fellow blogmates who make my work with A Pilgrim in Narnia so rewarding. Watch over the next week … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections
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The Inside is Bigger than the Outside: A Christmas Thought from Narnia for Our World Too
“Always winter and never Christmas.” This is the condition where we first discover Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe. It is not so much blanketed in white as smothered in it, frozen by it. Anyone in my … Continue reading
Love Lessons from “Love Actually”
I did not grow up with the spiritual significance of Christmas in my home, so Christmas was about three things: food, toys, and Christmas movies. I am still a little traumatized by a stop-action drummer boy in my childhood memory, … Continue reading
Posted in Reflections, Reviews
Tagged Christmas, Cloin Firth, Emma Thompson, film, Hugh Grant, Keira Knightly, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, love, Love Actually, Martin Freeman, Rowan Atkinson
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Eucatastrophe: J.R.R Tolkien & C.S. Lewis’s Magic Formula for Hope by Tim Willard
What is it we feel when the eagles swoop in during the final moments of the battle of the five armies in Do our emotions reveal the true depth of the fantasy genre that has captured the hearts of pop-culture? … Continue reading
Posted in Guest Blogs, Original Research
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Conversion, euchatastrophe, fantasy, film adaptation, g k chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, joy, lion the witch and the wardrobe, Lord of the Rings, myth, mythology, Norse Mythology, Peter Jackson, pop culture, The Battle of Five Armies, The Hobbit, Tom Shippey, worldviews
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O Radix, A Third Advent Reflection and Sonnet
Originally posted on Malcolm Guite:
https://lanciaesmith.com/image-for-the-day-advent/ The third Advent antiphon,in?my Advent Anthology from?Canterbury Press?Waiting on the Word,? O Radix, calls on Christ as the root, an image I find particularly compelling and helpful. The collect is referring to the image…
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C.S. Lewis’ Curmudgeonly Essay
If you were to judge only from the pieces he published in December 1957, you would assume that C.S. Lewis was a classic case, get-off-my-lawn, wide-jawed, beslippered, well aged, first class curmudgeon. In 1955, he had published a clever piece … Continue reading
